{"id":1226,"date":"2020-01-19T23:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T23:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:06:35","slug":"perhaps-the-most-famous-martin-luther-king-jr-quote-and-the-i-have-a-dream-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1226","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the most famous Martin Luther King Jr. quote &#8230; and the &#8220;I have a dream speech&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a502e71c200b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12881\" title=\"I have a dream speech\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div aria-level=\"3\" class=\"LGOjhe\" data-hveid=\"CAwQBQ\" role=\"heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\"> <br><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div aria-level=\"3\" class=\"LGOjhe\" data-hveid=\"CAwQBQ\" role=\"heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">\u201cI <strong>have<\/strong> a dream that my four little children <strong>will<\/strong> one day live in a nation where they <strong>will not be judged by the color of their skin<\/strong>, <strong>but by the content of their character<\/strong>.\u201d \u2014 Martin Luther King Jr.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kX21rb\" style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <br><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div aria-level=\"3\" class=\"LGOjhe\" data-hveid=\"CAwQBQ\" role=\"heading\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div aria-level=\"3\" class=\"LGOjhe\" data-hveid=\"CAwQBQ\" role=\"heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"kX21rb\" style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I have read that the expression &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; was not in his written text &#8211; he ad libbed it.<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div aria-level=\"3\" class=\"LGOjhe\" data-hveid=\"CAwQBQ\" role=\"heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"kX21rb\" style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Martin Luther King&#8217;s Address at March on Washington, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. One of the greatest of all American speeches.<br><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smEqnnklfYs\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\u201d \u2014 Martin Luther King Jr. &nbsp; I have read that the expression &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; was not in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12882,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}